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Parallels in the original castings of Shakespeare plays
One interesting thing about Shakespeare is that, as we know, he often wrote characters with a specific actor in mind, that would go o to play them (for example Hamlet his good friend, Richard Burbage. I could write an entire essay on why he was such a perfect fit for the character) This often made for very interesting situational puns during the first run of Hamlet. There are two great examples to prove this.
During Act 3 Scene 2, right after his argument with Ophelia, Hamlet asks Polonius (played by John Heminges) if he acted before, to which he replies that he did, and he played Caesar in Julius Caesar, and was killed by Brutus. The prince remarks how it must've been a 'brutal' role to kill such a 'capital a calf'. During The Globe's first year, one of it's first plays to be presented was Julius Caesar, actually starring John Heminges as Caesar, and Richard Burbage as Brutus This a great way to break the forth wall and cross-reference, but also to foreshadow the fact that Polonius will -yet again- will die by being stabbed to death by a character plaid by Richard Burbage.
The other parallel is at Ophelia's funeral, where Hamlet and Laertes begin fighting in Ophelia's grave. This is a callback to the time when same duo of actors (William Sly and Richard Burbage) previously played Paris and Romeo, who also start a fight in the mourning process of their mutual loved one, Juliet.
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Did anyone tell Ford (bonus doodles: Family Movie Night, 70s Classics)
#DID ANYONE TELL HIM. DOES MR NERD KNOW THEY MADE LIVE ACTION LORD OF THE RINGS MOVIES#FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING CAME OUT IN 2001 DOES HE KNOW. HAS HE WATCHED THEM#more importantly the HOBBIT came out in december of 2012. meaning Ford came back JUST in time to watch it in theatres#which I choose to believe he and Dipper did do. I'm gonna draw that actually. Those nerds love Tolkien you cant tell me otherwise#stanford pines#ford pines#grunkle ford#dipper pines#mason pines#gravity falls#GF fanart#fan art#fanart#digital art#comic#silly#my art
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cant talk rn obsessed over the design concept of this 2017 production of pinocchio as a stage play where pinocchio is the only character played by a human actor and the rest of the cast are portrayed as puppets ,,,
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One of my favourite bits of media history trivia is that back in the Elizabethan period, people used to publish unauthorised copies of plays by sending someone who was good with shorthand to discretely write down all of the play's dialogue while they watched it, then reconstructing the play by combining those notes with audience interviews to recover the stage directions; in some cases, these unauthorised copies are the only record of a given play that survives to the present day. It's one of my favourites for two reasons:
It demonstrates that piracy has always lay at the heart of media preservation; and
Imagine being the 1603 equivalent of the guy with the cell phone camera in the movie theatre, furtively scribbling down notes in a little book and hoping Shakespeare himself doesn't catch you.
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THE NOIR-HOBIE INTERACTIONS THAT I MADE UP IN MY MIND ARE VERY REAL TO ME. SONY PLEASE PICK UP WHAT I’M PUTTING DOWN!!!
#atsv spoilers#atsv#across the spiderverse#across the spider-verse#left the theatre knowing my gf is coming back immediately ofc had to draw this .#written hobie's dialogue here as though someone might incidentally forget he's british. LOL#sorray brits i will never be good at ur slang. i think bruv is a liiiittle old but he also said mandem so whatever#wanker/geezer is rly not used anymore but im sorry . i refuse to keep looking up british slang. its too hard#hobie brown#peter parker#spider-man noir#spider-punk#spiderman noir#spider punk#itsv#spiderman#into the spiderverse#my art
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*puts hands on hollywood exec's shoulders, staring unblinking into their eyes* listen to me. you will never get people who hate musicals to like musicals by making your musical less of a musical. if you hide the fact that your film is a musical in the advertising, you're going to get a lot of low ratings from people who hate musicals and went into your movie not expecting a musical and got one anyway. people who hate musicals will hate them no matter how realistic and diegetic and lowkey you try to make it. they will hate musicals even if you completely excise anything complicated, over the top, silly, or even slightly challenging. they will hate musicals even if you cut half the songs. they will hate musicals even if you cast that a-lister who can't sing worth a damn. stop trying to market to people who hate musicals. they're a lost cause. your audience should be people who love musicals. this half-assed middle ground pisses off both camps. just embrace the fact that your movie is a musical. lean into it. don't try and trick musical haters into coming to your film when you could be marketing to the theater kids. better cringe than a coward.
#musicals#musical theatre#broadway#there are SOME good movie musicals but god they're few and far between#theatre
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Leitmotifs drive me insane, like I hear *repeated melody that has an association with a person, idea, or situation* and I go *tears up the fucking rug like a dog*
#music#musical theatre#leitmotif#les miserables#anastasia musical#sweeney todd#jesus christ superstar#broadway#hadestown#phantom of the opera#ride the cyclone#the hunchback of notre dame#rent musical#fiddler on the roof#starkid#merrily we roll along
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From my theatre experience. Every time an animatronic would move/disappear the entire audience would GASP AND SCREAM IN SHOCK
#fnaf#fnaf movie#five nights at freddy's#five nights at freddy's movie#the theatre was fuckign awesome I loved everyone there#my snArt tag#go watch it in theatres if you can\
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If you ever feel like you’ve made bad decisions just remember that somewhere out there is a theatre director at an all-white high school about to choose the spring musical
#musical theatre memes#musical theatre#theatre kid#theater kid#theatre#theater#hairspray#once on this island#Hamilton#in the heights#ragtime#west side story
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Family
#TL - chichi means dad (for anyone watching dub only)#saw the movie in theatre last week!#it was cute!#this drawing takes place in the post reveal timeline - just me fantasizing#could've rendered it a bit more - it might look a bit too rough haha#spy x family#sxf#sxf fanart#loid forger#anya forger#yor forger#yor briar#twiyor#o0kawaii0o
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the curse of local theatre is that a show can change you forever and there is no recording of it anywhere at all and after a few years all you have are scattered memories and the knowledge that you were different before.
#this is abt a local production of twelfth night#saw it in high school. changed how i thought of my transness#dont remember anything about it#twelfth night#owl's adventures in theatre
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odkaz na událost https://www.facebook.com/events/1550436432403854?ref=newsfeed
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The aftermath of "God Games"
Some Epic: the Musical fanart I've done in the recent months!! I have more so I'll probs post that too lmao, but yeah, this one's my favorite so far I think <3
#epic the vengeance saga#epic the musical#epic the wisdom saga#epic fanart#fanart#the odyssey#odysseus#the illiad#character art#artists on tumblr#small artist#musical theatre#greek mythology#greek myth art#athena#ares#hellenic deities#greek deities
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Any time somebody argues that you should avoid the use of obvious pop culture references and current slang in prose fiction in order to avoid "dating" the text, I'm reminded that our primary evidence for when several of Shakespeare's plays were written is that their dialogue quotes specific pieces of contemporary popular media, and that there's strong evidence many of the words he's credited by modern authorities with inventing are literally just contemporary youth slang. Like, if it's good enough for Shakespeare it's good enough for me, buddy!
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